A otter and his younger sister sat chained on a ship deck owned
by vermin. Both were beaten, starved , and treated like nothing.
The female sat a sleep of fatigue. But the male sat watching the
vermin rats and stoats party like no tomorrow.

A rat approached him."Aye ya little'un, want some to drink?"he
then poured wine all over him. Giving a growl, the otter lunged and
bit the rat's leg."Yah!! The little pike bit me Chief!"

The female stoat leader came up and whipped him several times.
He didn't move or blink."Ah, little one gone insane!"she said.

The otter watched as they continued to party. He closed his
eyes and said a curse:

From the writings of Recorder Furela of Redwall Abbey in
Mossflower Country. Today at Redwall, Thaila and Skipper were
married. Thaila became Corella's step-mother. We had a feast to
celebrate and Thaila cried through the whole thing;never before had
she been loved so much. She had been a lot in her life;from being a
helpless otter babe, to a killer, a prisoner, to a lover, a loner,
and finally to a beautiful wife. It's Thaila's journey.......A
Taggerung's Journey.

Vilxa Rath, leader of the Juskarath, was bringing a ottermaid
back to her camp. The maid screamed and tugged at the ropes bonding
her paws, but all she got back was a ferret telling her to "Shut
up".

Walking into the ferret camp, she went to a tattooed ottermaid
who was waiting."Th…